 One of the earliest stories he covered there was the murder of Carl Bridgewater, the paperboy shot during a robbery in 1978.In 1981, Icke became a sports presenter for the BBC's national programme "Newsnight", which had begun the previous year.Two years later, on 17 January 1983, he appeared on the first edition of the BBC's "Breakfast Time", British television's first national breakfast show, and presented the sports news there until 1985.